Acts 15:31
Verse 31 of 41. The 15th of 28 chapters in Acts, in Acts.
27We have sent therefore Judas and Silas, who themselves will also tell you the same things by word of mouth.
28For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay no greater burden on you than these necessary things:
29that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell.”
30So, when they were sent off, they came to Antioch. Having gathered the multitude together, they delivered the letter.
31When they had read it, they rejoiced over the encouragement.
32Judas and Silas, also being prophets themselves, encouraged the brothers with many words and strengthened them.
33After they had spent some time there, they were dismissed in peace from the brothers to the apostles.
34Some manuscripts add: But it seemed good to Silas to stay there.
35But Paul and Barnabas stayed in Antioch, teaching and preaching the word of the Lord, with many others also.
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